1. The five words below have something in common that has nothing to do with their meanings, but rather with the letters in the words. Can you determine what the letters in each word have in common?

FEED
MOON
RUST
HIGH
CEDE

2. What do the following words have in common?

STOCKS
POCKET
SNORED
GROVEL
OBJECT

3. What do the following words have in common?

AT
GO
PET
ROT
TON

Answers:

1. Each word is made up of three or four consecutive letters of the alphabet.

2. The O in each word can be changed to A to give new words:

STACKS
PACKET
SNARED
GRAVEL
ABJECT

3. Each word can be preceded by CAR:

CARAT
CARGO
CARPET
CARROT
CARTON